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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101015/pl_afp/uspoliticsdiplomacy_20101015222922

Obama, Condoleezza Rice chat about foreign policy, books
– Fri Oct 15, 6:29 pm ET

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama met Friday at the White House with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice for a chat on foreign policy and her new memoir, officials said.

Rice gave the president a “personalized copy” of “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family,” in which Rice describes her childhood in racially segregated Birmingham, Alabama, a White House spokesman said.

The Oval Office meeting marked the first time Rice has been back to the White House since former president George W. Bush left office.

They discussed “a range of national security issues, and we’re going to leave it at that,” said Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman.

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Obama and Rice are both racial pioneers. He is America’s first African American president, and author of his own memoir “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” and she is the highest-ranking black woman in the history of the executive branch of the US government.

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Asked to grade his foreign policy, she refused.

“I’ve said very many times that I may not agree with everything that the administration has done, but I also know that it’s a lot harder in there than it is out here,” she said.

“Nobody needs to have people who’ve been there chirping at you about what you’re not doing right, because you can’t possibly know the whole range of considerations on any given day unless you’re in.”

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That’s showing some sign of maturity. The President is in a bubble. He needs to hear different opinions. Especially form someone who’s been in the soup pot.

He moves up a notch in my opinion. (Not that anyone much cares about that.)

And she’s one classy lady. It’s too easy to Monday morning Qback. Like that line from the movie, “American President”, … “How’s the view from the cheap seats?”.

While I may disagree with just about everything BHO44 has chosen to do, I always remember I’m in the “cheap seats”.

His values aren’t mine. His results are his. We can certainly judge on the results. Sadly, the results are worse than one would have expected. But then Socialists will always disappoint. It comes from their roots. The first principle of Gooferment is force. And, things go downhill from there.

Argh!

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http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/mine-rescue-crisis-shows-chiles-president-to-be-leader-that-america-desperately-needs/

Mine Rescue: Crisis Shows Chile’s President To Be the Kind of Leader That America Desperately Needs

Sebastián Piñera’s brilliant handling of the mine crisis showed the world his strong character while revealing weaknesses in the character of our own president.

October 15, 2010 – by Tim Daniel

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Look to Obama’s attack on BP as his administration, amidst crisis, floundered and flopped like an oil-soaked pelican. Or look to the ludicrous banana republic-esque saber rattling against the Chamber of Commerce as November 2 approaches. Or even the “public enemy number one” fixation on Fox News. Or worse and most damaging to us all, the slavish hostility directed at income earners and entrepreneurs across this nation.

In crisis and challenge, Piñera lifted up his entire nation as an example.

Obama has petulantly, willingly, and unflinchingly brought his down.

Character counts and so do ideas.

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BHO44 has been a total disaster. Socialists usually are. In this case, he didn’t even make the trains run on time.

BUSH43 started off good in the case of the WTC911, but soon got off track. And, booted Katrina. But, Big Gooferment socialists are just as bad.

When will the Sheeple learn. All the politicians and bureaucrats are the same.

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http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/realitycheck/2010/20101014092809.aspx

Worst of the Week: Team Obama’s Media Helpers Hide Bad News for Democrats
By: Tim Graham
October 14, 2010 09:21 ET

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While network correspondents complain about the unfairness of independent advertising, they might ponder the unfairness of their habitual tendency to omit or downplay bad news for Team Obama, especially in the crucial last weeks of a campaign. Consider some of the latest stories that would have drawn much more attention and media hostility if the shoe was on the Republican foot:

■ Oil spill incompetence or dishonesty.

■ Delayed Democrat ethics trials.

■ More John Edwards subpoenas.

■ Stimulus dollars for the dead.

■ Big setback in trying terror suspects.

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Just business as usual in the District of Corruption.

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http://centraljersey.com/articles/2010/10/07/opinions/doc4cacf5a0ac4d1591549135.txt

DISPATCHES: We’re all complicit
Sexual intolerance helped lead R.U. student to suicide
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 6:37 PM EDT
By Hank Kalet, Managing Editor

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Our unwillingness to grant LGBTs full rights is a societal/cultural admission that we think of them as less worthy than the rest of us. It allows the stigma to remain in place and allows the hate to continue to flow.

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Modern day Liberals, as opposed to the Classical Liberals of history, suffer from a language difficulty. Either deliberate or unintentional. The “Our unwillingness … to grant … rights” is a construction that is flawed.

We don’t “grant” rights. “We hold these truths as self-evident. That all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”. Rights are unalienable. It’s only when the Gooferment comes with their guns that the problems begin.

Why is the Gooferment involved in the “granting of rights”? Or the definition of “marriage”? Or encouraging “We, The People” to fight each other in the area that the Gooferment defines?

“Marriage” was originally a matter for a civil society to “consecrate” in its Churches. Secular Progressives could not permit that to continue because their values were in conflict. They “knew”, because of their elite status and education, what was good for everyone — Socialism of some flavor or another. Churches, Families, and Fraternal Organizations stood in the way. They gained control of the levers of Gooferment with its monopoly on using force and were i the “driver’s seat”. Can’t make an omelet without breaking a few legs. They used Gooferment to give “benefits” to marriage and thus began the war on that civil institution.

Personally, I am pro-choice on everything. I want a Voluntarist society.

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Personally, I think the whole LGBT is a dead end branch for the propagation of the species. But, since I want to be left alone with respect to my personal life, I am more than happy to ignore everyone else’s choices. As a little L libertarian, I think that “marriage”, its Gooferment benefits that accompany it, and “Gooferment Skrules” — all shouldn’t exist.

That would very quickly end the debate.

And, by the way, anyone beating up anyone should be forced to make restitution regardless of why they were doing the beating.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams53.1.html

Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance by Walter E. Williams

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What about the politician who tells us that he’s not going to raise taxes on the middle class; instead, he’s going to raise corporate income taxes as means to get rich corporations to pay their rightful share of government? If a tax is levied on a corporation, and if it is to survive, it will have one of three responses, or some combination thereof. One response is to raise the price of its product, so who bears the burden? Another response is to lower dividends; again, who bears the burden? Yet another response is to lay off workers. In each case, it is people, not some legal fiction called a corporation, who bear the burden of the tax.

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So the corporate tax rate should ALWAYS be zero. Anything higher and it’s the politicians trying to sheer the sheeple!

Corporations don’t “pay” taxes; only real flesh and blood people do. Corporations provide politicians “cover” because the Sheeple don’t recognize the tax is buried in the price.

When the tax is put on a capital asset used in the production of other goods (like gasoline) the impact is magnified. So every UPS package that’s delivered has that gas “tax” factored in.

When UPS buys the trucks that GM paid tax on, that’s buried in the cost of every package delivered.

They taught us this in injineering school. No one can really know how much tax they are paying and the politicians and bureaucrats like that just fine. Argh!

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http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/what-in-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you

What In The Hell Is Wrong With You?
by dumpdc on 9/30/10
by Daniel Miller, Texas Nationalist Movement

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For the 14 years since I arrived at that conclusion I have watched the people of Texas shoved around by a Federal Government drunk on power. They go through a succession of governmental functionaries from one of the two major parties only to wind up with more government, less freedom and more abuse. Unfortunately for me, although I know the truth and what the solution is, the rest of the people of Texas have not reached the mental and emotional place of safety where I reside.

This leaves me to watch the abuses pile up without the proper response. To get an idea of my daily anguish, let’s paint a mental picture together. Imagine for a moment that you are part of a large family. You and your siblings are sitting in the living room of the house and your Mother’s current husband, someone who is not your Father, comes in and begins to beat the crap out of your Mother. Your sister starts to cry so he turns his attention to her and starts beating her. Your brother tries to shield your sister and he gets smacked a few times. You speak up and try to shield them all and get pummeled more than all of them put together. After he beats you, thankfully, he takes the money that you all have been saving from the cookie jar, jumps in his car and heads off to the local watering hole to blow all of the money on booze and other women. Imagine that this happens every day.

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Abused spouses go through four phases while in an abusive relationship. They are: denial, guilt, enlightenment and responsibility.

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I plead one more time with my Mother, my brothers and sister. We are abused. It is not our fault. The Federal Government will not change. It will make promises that it will not keep. If it ever stops abusing us, the break will be brief and it will not last. While we have been faithful to the Constitutional marriage of which we are part, it has not. Mother, your children in the Texas Nationalist Movement have stood up for you. Brothers and sisters of Texas, the Texas Nationalist Movement, your blood, your siblings have stood up for you. We have told you that it is time to make a new life. We will survive this but only if we leave.

Mother, brothers, sisters, let us start this new life now. One free of abuse. We can make it together but first we have to make the decision. If not, then I will continue to ask you “what in the hell is wrong with you?”

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An excellent analogy!

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http://dailyreckoning.com/whats-really-in-the-social-security-trust-fund/

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“Some in our country think that Social Security is a trust fund – in other words, there’s a pile of money being accumulated. That’s just simply not true. The money – payroll taxes going into the Social Security are spent. They’re spent on benefits and they’re spent on government programs. There is no trust.” —- President Bush 2005

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Only certain people who vote for “hope and change”?

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Energize Our Economy and Your Family’s Future
Reduce the Sales Tax to 3% — Vote YES on Question 3
by Charles C. Ormsby, Ph.D.

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New Hampshire’s Unemployment rate is 5.7%.

Massachusetts’ Unemployment rate is 8.8%.

54% higher!

Why?

Why have so many large retail stores fled the Merrimack Valley just to be resurrected in Salem, Plaistow or Nashua? Why are the businesses that remain focused mainly on food, clothing or automobiles?

The answers are obvious as: The Massachusetts Sales Tax.

The symptoms did not just arise when the state legislature and Governor Patrick increased the sales tax from 5% to 6.25%. These symptoms were evident before the increase, but this increase in the middle of a gut-wrenching economic downturn has seriously exacerbated the problem.

The effect of taxes on economic prosperity is not a mystery.

It is clearly visible when the economies of countries are compared. Countries that have historically low levels of taxation (if accompanied by a respect for property rights) are generally prosperous and have above average growth rates. Those with high tax rates (often accompanied by an onerous regulatory burden) typically are mired in poverty and despair with few prospects for a brighter future. When countries significantly alter tax levels, their economies respond rapidly: either expanding, if tax levies are reduced, or contracting if levies are raised.

The same effect is evident when comparing state economies. Just look at the dramatic differences in job creation when the highest tax states in the U.S. are compared to the lowest tax states. The nine states with the lowest taxes had over twice the job growth rate over the last decade as the nine states with the highest taxes.

Increasing taxes is not merely an indirect factor influencing some obscure economic statistic that somehow or other relates to the decisions of companies to close factories, to close retail outlets, or to lay off employees.

Higher taxes directly cause these results and directly impact our economic prosperity and security. Lowering taxes can reverse these effects.

Let’s just look at one, local example: The Methuen Mall (now The Loop).

Do you remember when there was a Sears at the Methuen Mall? And a Jordan Marsh? And Filene’s Basement? And more than 50 other retail outlets? Of course, the Mall took a nose dive after Sears moved (1991) to the expanded Rockingham Mall. The Mall’s final gasp high-lighted a “Sheds Unlimited” outlet; a fitting requiem for what was once a thriving retail complex.

But prosperity is a group activity. Success feeds on success. There is excitement in prosperity and commerce … just as dullness and fear accompany decline and failure. Taxes discourage commerce and block prosperity, engendering failure.

Customers shop where there is convenient access to a wide variety of goods and services. Salem, Plaistow and Nashua are thriving because they lack the extra burden of a sales tax. Our 6.25% sales tax is a huge advantage for New Hampshire businesses and a major deterrent to anyone considering locating or expanding their business in Massachusetts.

The herd has moved to where the grazing is profitable. They have left the dry hole in Massachusetts.

Yes, after more than a decade, the Methuen Mall (The Loop) came back. Now, nearly 20 years later, we are back to where we were before the sales tax induced competition from Salem emerged. Salem has exploded to ten times its size in 1990 while once-dominant Methuen has barely managed to tread water. All thanks to a 5% sales tax.

But The Loop is not what it was in 1990. It is now dominated by enterprises that sell tax-free items (groceries, clothing), or low-cost/convenience items (less than $100), or by businesses that are equivalently taxed in New Hampshire (e.g., restaurants). The Home Depot outlet in Methuen sells taxable items, but ask store management where people go for the high-ticket items – the Home Depot store in Salem.

Try to find a store on the Massachusetts side of the border that sells major appliances or 50″ High Definition TVs. There are very few. Did you see the new Ultimate Electronics Store in Salem? Too bad it couldn’t consider Methuen, Lowell, Haverhill, or Lawrence for its home.

You don’t miss what you don’t see. Not only are these stores gone, along with their jobs, but gone also is the secondary economy that supports them: construction, maintenance, insurance, accounting, and on and on. Not to mention all the resultant spending from those employed that in turn supports real estate development, barbers, lawn services, painters, auto repair. All gone to New Hampshire.

More jobs lost. More opportunity stolen from your family. More prosperity denied. More economic risk and despair to deal with.

Of course, with less tax revenue derived from a growing and prosperous business community, the government beast still wants to be fed; well fed in fact. Welcome to even higher property and income tax demands.

That is why our brilliant legislators, with an excess of law degrees but no business experience, thought it wise to increase the sales tax from 5% to 6.25% and further disadvantage Massachusetts businesses and degrade the Massachusetts economy.

Their philosophy must be: If shooting yourself in the foot slows you down, try shooting yourself in the groin. Hey, why not go all in and try a shot between the eyes?

Of course, they are not that stupid. We all know that their idiocy is driven by self interest.

Taxes are the pump that transfers wealth from the private sector to the public sector. Those in the public sector like the pump; in fact, they love it. They love it so much that they promise to do everything in their power to keep those who will protect and enlarge the pump in power.

The politicians and the special interests have a deal: The politicians will work tirelessly (lying when needed) to keep the pump working and the special interests will work tirelessly (lying when needed) to keep them in office and campaigning to avoid any reduction in pumping operations.

Of course, they also agree to divvy up the loot in the form of wages, benefits, pensions, and special favors. Just like the Hole in the Wall Gang after a bank robbery, except, this time, the hole is in your wallet!

The last ballot initiative that attempted to reduce taxes (eliminate the income tax) provided a classic example. The proponents were able to raise and spend approximately $493,000 in support of the ballot initiative (100% from individual private donations; most under $100). The opponents spent over $7.5 million (more than 15 times as much) to defeat the initiative (with 99.8% coming from special interest organizations; 60% of this from teachers’ unions and the remainder from other government unions such as AFSCME and the SEIU).

The special interests can only continue this racket if we let them. They will outspend those trying to reduce our taxes again; almost certainly by more than ten-to-one. They will tell us that reducing the sales tax will cause a plague. Children will go hungry. Teachers, police and firefighters will be laid off. Life will come to an end.

They are lying. The proof is only a few miles to your north. If New Hampshire can prosper with NO sales tax and NO income tax, why will a reduction in the sales tax to 3% be a problem?

Not only will it NOT be a problem, it will re-invigorate the economy.

It is projected to create 33,000 new jobs.

Families like yours will retain $500-$1000 in earnings every year instead of losing these earnings to the state’s bloated bureaucracy.

Businesses will have a fighting chance to compete and add jobs in the Merrimack Valley.

We can also emulate the successful New Hampshire strategy of attracting shoppers and businesses from contiguous states. With a 3% sales tax, shoppers will be attracted to Massachusetts businesses from Rhode Island (7%), Connecticut (6%), New York (7+ %), and Vermont (6%). That differential, if sustained over 5-10 years, will dramatically grow the Massachusetts economy.

State government merely needs to cut its out-of-control spending by a mere 5% with NO CUTS in local aid.

Don’t fall for the lies of the special interests … no matter how often they advertise.

Go to http://www.rollbacktaxes.com to help return Massachusetts to prosperity!

IN NOVEMBER, VOTE YES ON QUESTION 3.

Every tax cut is a pay increase … and a spur to economic prosperity!

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Dr. Charles Ormsby is a former member of the North Andover School Committee.

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In principle, same thing for New Jersey. Voters were fooled into passing the sales tax for property tax relief.

Fooled you!

In the theory, sales tax should be the ONLY tax.

But in practice, one must oppose every tax. Period. Every time. All the time.

The Dead Old White Guys must be rolling over. They revolted over a few percent. We can’t even calculate the Gooferment’s take.

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http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/092710_Obama_Money_alone_cant_help_schools.html

Obama: Money alone can’t help schools
Monday, September 27, 2010
LAST UPDATED: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2010, 10:08 AM
BY BEN FELLER THE RECORD ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Education is primarily the domain of state and local governments. But the federal government has leverage and uses it, for example, through the strings it attaches to poverty aid that thousands of schools depend upon to support their programming.

The president admitted that his own daughters, Malia and Sasha, couldn’t get the same quality education at a Washington, D.C. public school that they currently get at their private school. The Obama girls attend Sidwell Friends School, an elite private school in the Washington area.

“The DC public schools systems are struggling,” Obama said, though he added that the school district has, “made some important strides over the last several years to move in the direction of reform.” Public schools in Washington have long faced criticism for their low test scores and high dropout rates.

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“Education is primarily the domain of state and local governments”

Gee, I thought that children were entrust to the parents by the Creator. They are NOT resources for or wards of the Gooferment. Education should be primarily the domain of the parents; not any level of Gooferment.

The way the current system has evolved is that rights come from the Creator and that Governments are formed by men to protect those rights. So “We, The People” recognize these rights. These rights belong to ALL our fellow human beings.

We currently have an active debate as to when a person can assert these rights and when we accord them (i.e., in the womb, born, viable infant, majority, or something inbetween).

We have inadvertently allowed Gooferment as various levels to insinuate itself in the realm of education. And, we are worse off for it.

Let’s remember, why the Gooferment got into education? Prussian King Frederick II made schooling compulsory for all children between ages five and 13. In 1843, Mann traveled to Germany to investigate how the educational process worked. Upon his return to the United States, he lobbied heavily to have the “Prussian model” adopted. The purpose was to instill social obedience in the citizens through indoctrination. Make good soldiers for the Army, compliant workers for the factory, and obedient serfs for the aristocracy to lead.

Note where the head politician sends his children to school!

Let’s get the Gooferment out of the education process completely. It’s taken more than a hundred years to get to this realization. So let’s have two twenty year plans to accomplish the “Separation of School and State”. The Gooferment operates the schools and funds them by taking wealth from the people.

We can debate the morality of stealing wealth from people, laundering it through various levels of Gooferment — each with a handling charge, and providing a substandard education for non-wealthy children. We can’t debate that it is NOT working.

“If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities.” —- Walter Williams

So first, we end the Gooferment operation of education. And, then we end the funding of it.

Since we didn’t get into this mess overnight, we can’t get out of it overnight either. People have to have time to learn the new meme and adapt their lives to accommodate it.

The first 20 year plan is to “privatize” schoo

Isn’t that interesting. No party affiliation? Either party? Could it be that they think we are stupid and don’t know there is a gang of crooks behind this sign waiting to rob us blind.

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